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What can I put on my Dash Board?

Discussion in 'SimTools compatible interfaces' started by stowaway, Mar 8, 2012.

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    I have a volvo dash board, and I can have upto 7 Guages, But I Cant think of any other gauges I can really use besides speedo and Tacho?

    I will also have a big character LCD in the middle, So can anyone give me some ideas of what I cand i display on there and what to use all my guages for?
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    how about fluffy dice? :rofl:
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    lol. yeah that made me laugh ;)

    If i cant think of anything else Im thinking of making one a CPU meter and perhapes a RAM meter.
    Not sure if that is possible tho (thru USO)
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    Maybe via usb. There probably is such meters from electronics shops. do a search
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    im prettty sure I can easily make up a program in C to communicate the CPU meter and RAM to communicate with my AVR Chip.. however, the Com port that it will be on will already be in use by the USO because it will be sending information about speed and revs from the game.. I was hoping that there would be a way to get the USO to also send CPU data to use as a fuel gauge. (unless anyone else can suggest some in-game data i can send?)
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    Or a bobble head :) in Dirt you can match it with your in car one :mug1:

    Don't know if you are running jrk's? If so, maybe it's possible to do something with the current current(amps) draw?
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    JRKS are my fall back plan.. I am still planning on creating my own board with an arduino Uno.

    Im not sure how I will monitor the draw ect on them.. I suppose I could use the Motor Position values. or hte PWM values....
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    Current draw could be done by using a shunt http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?a ... m&id=Q0470 and a multimeter. A shunt usually puts out a reading to the multimeter in milliamps. But as the spikes of current would be very quick, unless you have a scope to record them, you would get more an average reading. Better than nothing though.
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    cool, i think we have a winner.

    So ill hook 3 Gauges up to each h-bridge output..
    stowaway, Mar 9, 2012
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